I like to think that comedic models will become common in future figure drawing sessions. I further fantasize that the best models...i.e. the funniest ones, the most fun to draw...will become much sought after on the art school circuit. I predict that we'll see a lot of certain types of characters. I'll mention a few of them here.
Well, there's the Mr. Meek type (above).
With costume changes the very same model could, in the same session, be a flamboyant dandy...
...a dancer or a singer...
...a snob...
...or a goofball...
...or a villain like Captain Hook.
As with male models you'll want female models who, with a costume change, could play different kinds of roles. Skinny Olive Oyl-types (above) would be fun to draw and could probably do double duty in the same session.
She could also be a dancer (above)...
...or a funny melodramatic actor.
I don't mean to give the impression that one model could handle all the women's parts. For other sessions you'll also need a big-boned model (above).
With a couple of pillows tucked into her clothes she could be a hefty post-middle age woman.
You'll obviously need a sexy bathing suit model (above). This requires someone funny who's voluptuous and curvy, not thin like a super model.
You'll also need a dramatic actress who can parody actresses like Garbo or Bette Davis.
Eddie, I have a problem.
ReplyDeleteA few months ago, I wrote to Warner Brothers Animation to tell them about Danny Palin's Tiny Toons story "Fleche De Lard", and (Heaven knows how) they seem to think I wrote it! To quote the lines that I'm concerned about from the response they sent me, "YOUR story was very good" and "YOU seem to have a talent for storytelling".
How in Heaven's name could they possibly give the credit to the person who DISCOVERED the story instead of the person who WROTE it? Is the writing staff at Warner Brothers Animation so short of good stories, that they take the first good story they see and, straight away, give the credit to the person who DISCOVERED the story instead of the person who WROTE it? Or was the person writing the response about to put "YOUR FRIEND'S story was very good" and "YOUR FRIEND seems to have a talent for storytelling", but was so short of time before his coffee break that he only had time to put "YOUR story was very good" and "YOU seem to have a talent for storytelling"?
This is like giving Henry Ford credit for inventing the automobile. Now it's nothing personal. It's just that I have a neck for telling good stories from bad stories, and I don't want the original writer to be angry with me for receiving the credit. And I tried to say that it was Danny who wrote it.
If you want to read Danny's story, here it is: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10996988/1/Fleche-De-Lard
And if you want to see something I wrote from MY OWN HEAD, here it is: http://05jstone.deviantart.com/art/An-idea-for-Tiny-Toon-Adventures-The-Movie-597156231
Anon: I don't have time to read anything now, but mistakes like that are made all the time. They're easy to straighten out in an email to the original writer.
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